Fubarberry @ Fubarberry @sopuli.xyz

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I learned a lot by using a less common distro (solus). When I would have a problem, the solutions I could find on forums or arch wiki wouldn't apply to my distro directly, and I would have to look into the solution for long enough to understand what needed to change in order for the solution to work.

You can probably do this on any distro, just by not using commands you find online until you understand what they're doing and why that might fix your problem. Arch wiki is a great resource for any distro, even though it won't always be accurate for the distro you're on.

I use electric contact cleaner to clean all my controllers when they get sticky buttons or stick drift. You don't even need to disassemble it, just turn off the deck/controller, spray the cleaner in around the button/joystick that's not working right, press the button/move the stick around some, and then wait a couple minutes before turning it back on.

Only important thing to remember is that you need to make sure the contact cleaner you buy is plastic safe, some aren't. I've had really good results with CRC brand QD cleaner, and it's available at a lot of stores.

Also.going to tag @Kareemofficial@thelemmy.club

Unfortunately Deck 2 timing is unknown right right now, haven't had any leaks suggesting that we'll be getting it soon. We know Valve is releasing SteamOS for more devices, starting with Lenovo handhelds, but it's not clear if we'll see SteamOS for any non-handhelds in the immediate future.

We are getting a new Steam Controller soon, which I'm hyped about.

That's really bizarre. A lot of rhythm games have a calibration test you can do for both visual and audio lag, the visual lag test would be a great way to get some time measurements of the lag with different controller types.

Edit: Rift of the Necrodancer has a free demo that includes a visual latency test.

"Not meeting companies hopes" and "not being mainstream" are two different things...

I fully agree with that, I just don't think it's reached enough popularity with the public to be considered mainstream.

Just the fact that there are VR businesses that you can go and pay to play VR games with standard VR headsets is a strong suggestion that they're still a rare novelty to most people.

Meta thought it would be the next big thing, so much that they renamed themselves "meta". A lot of companies have been courting VR as a future big market, but we definitely haven't seen it blow up like companies hoped it would. I wouldn't say it's a dead market, but I would definitely put it as more of a novelty than a mainstream success.

Didn't really see any must buy deals in any of the winter sales. It's a shame.

It'll probably be ok if you let it dry out first. As others have said, rice doesn't actually do anything beneficial, other than keep people from using their device for awhile.

Wait this is in the US? How, this is even more expensive than Hawaii, and they have obvious reasons for power to be more expensive there

That seems really high, I think power where I live is about 12-14 cents per kilowatt hour. What makes it so expenses where you live?

It really depends on the specific game, many older AAA games or non-unreal games run fine.

It's also interesting seeing how some games run much better now than they did on release. CP2077 (non-dlc parts) runs pretty well now for example, much better than it did when the Deck first came out.

Also key here is that the Deck needs to be off

Oh ok, I never shut my deck off. Closest I get is restarting to install updates.

Battery should be fine based on my experience.

If you have an OLED you can have the deck wake up when a BLE connects, but there's also a bios setting to wake up LCD/OLED Decks when plugged in. I've heard of people getting smart plugs (or even remote toggled plugs) and plugging their dock charger into that. When you want to wake up the deck just toggle the power off and on, and the deck will wake up.

That's really extreme, I'm pretty sure that's now at all how it should be working.

I don't leave my deck docked that long, maybe 10 hours at the longest, but I've never seen anything like the battery drop you're describing.

misconstruing something that is clearly a rule about profit making services

To be honest I don't think that's clear at all, it feels like it's more a rule about being skeptical of free stuff online. And many for profit companies have open source projects that can be used safely even though the source is a for-profit.

Yeah, it's wild how close PayPal came to killing Minecraft early on by locking all of Notch's money as soon as MC started to take off.

Yeah, I feel like that's usually a very accurate saying, but it doesn't really work with a lot of open source projects.

I hate that you're getting downvoted by so many people who don't realize you're pointing out an exception to the rule, and instead think you have some fundamental misunderstanding about how Linux works.

I know a lot of subreddits like that have rules that you have to be part of the profession to post. Reason being that they don't want amateurs/etc to fill up the community with posts asking for advice, but instead want it to be a place for people in the profession to be able to talk to other professionals.

I can fully understand that approach, and how following that rule would directly lead to posts like this getting locked. At the same time, this is an interesting post and seems like it would have interesting discussion.

So basically this post probably breaks the written rules of the community, but is the kind of content that they wanted the rules to encourage. If it was my community I'd let the post stay (maybe with a mod comment on why it was allowed to stay up), but it's always risky to enforce the written rules inconsistently. I've seen a lot of communities get upset about inconsistent mods.

I usually will trust that a game will run if it says verified/playable, but when a game says unsupported I check ProtonDB. Far too many unsupported games run fine with minimal tweaks or proton-ge.

Honestly I think you'll have to get it RMA'd.